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As I updated Mocorunning's outdoor county championship meet record book for next year, the following were notable revisions to the record book which monitors the top 25 performances in meet history for each event and maintains lists of every county champion in each event.
While it should be getting harder to enter Mocorunning's County Championship Meet Record Book, 2024 smashed every other year for record book entries. There were 186 new entries from 2024 as opposed to other great years: there are 145 entries remaining from 2014 and 129 entries remaining from 2023.
A wind meter was used for the first time at the Montgomery County Championship Meet. It proved prudent because it validated several top 10 performances and meet records as wind-legal. Mocorunning's record book will continue to rank performances as "all-condition" performances due to the 40+ year history of the meet without wind instrumentation.
It was the 1st outdoor county title won by the Paint Branch boys. 87 points was the highest point total in meet history for the Paint Branch boys.
On the girls side, it was Blake High School's second outdoor county title in three years.
3rd place was the highest finish in meet history for the Wheaton girls. 52 points was the highest point total in meet history for the Wheaton girls.
Nicholas Spikes of Paint Branch High School became the first boy in meet history to win 6 career outdoor county titles in individual events: 100m and 200m in 2022, 200m and 400m in 2023, 200m and 400m in 2024.
Mateo Gros-Slovinsky of Whitman High School became the first boy to pull off the distance triple in winning the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m. Sally Glynn and Abigail Green of Walter Johnson accomplished the same feat in the girls division in a single day format in 1994 and 2018, respectively.
Brooke Cochran of Blake High School joined a club of 19 girls to win 5 or more outdoor county titles in her high school career: 100m and 200m in 2022, 200m and 400m in 2023, and 200m in 2024.
Grace Finnegan of Richard Montgomery won her fourth career outdoor county title. Just 7 of 29 girls to win four outdoor county titles while in high school would be considered distance athletes. Finnegan won her third consecutive 800-meter county title outdoors in 2024 on top of a 1600-meter title in 2023.
Iyanni Daley of Wheaton was voted the female James DeMoss award winner. She won the 100m (12.03) and contributed to the winning 4x100 (47.55). She was 200-meter and 4x200-meter runner-up.
Nicholas Spikes and Roman Spikes of Paint Branch combined to break meet records in the 100m (10.53, Roman), 200m (20.92, Nicholas), 400m (47.01, Nicholas), and 4x200m relay (1:25.13). Nicholas Spikes was voted by coaches as the James DeMoss athlete of the meet (he also won the award two years ago as a sophomore).
On a percentage basis, the boys 4x200 relay time of 1:25.13 is the farthest time ahead of the #2 performance in meet history among all running events. Some field events are stronger on a percentage basis. The math is the absolute value of ((the #2 performance in meet history) minus (the #1 performance in meet history)) divided by (the #2 performance). (1:28.23-1:25.13)/(1:28.23) or (88.23-85.13)/88.23 = 3.5%.
Boys County Meet Records calculated as percentage difference from the #2 performance in meet history:
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Andrew Bevan Magruder 1984 14-09.00 Boys Pole Vault 11.3%
Kevin Joyce Springbrook 1985 6-11.00 Boys High Jump 3.8%
Paint Branch 2024 1:25.13 Boys 4x200 3.5%
Clarence Foote-Talley Northwest 2019 49-05.50 Boys Triple Jump 3.4%
Marcus Brown Quince Orchard 2009 167-04.00 Boys Discus 2.0%
Roberto Terrell, Jr. Quince Orchard 2023 38.24 Boys 300m Hurdles 1.7%
Nicholas Spikes Paint Branch 2024 47.1 Boys 400m 1.6%
Girls County Meet Records calculated as percentage difference from the #2 performance in meet history:
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Claudia Ababio Clarksburg 2014 45-01.00 Girls Shot Put 9.2%
Claudia Ababio Clarksburg 2014 130-01.00 Girls Discus 3.9%
Sally Glynn Walter Johnson 1996 ht-4:50.0 Girls 1600m 2.4%
Northwest 2011 3:49.48 Girls 4x400m 1.5%
Thea LaFond Kennedy 2011 40-08.00 Girls Triple Jump 1.4%
Kendall Wideman of Seneca Valley tied the boys long jump meet record set just one year earlier by QO's Roberto Terrell Jr. at 22-11.50.
Brooke Cochran of Blake and Nicholas Spikes of Paint Branch each won the 200-meter dash for the third consecutive year.
First time event champions from their school (i.e. Kayla Gordon was the first girls 400m county champion from Gaithersburg High School):
First Time Event Champions From a Given School
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Name School Event Won
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Kayla Gordon Gaithersburg Girls 400m
Jaylin Harried Bethesda Chevy Chase Girls Triple Jump
Jabea Ewane Watkins Mill Girls Shot put
Teagan Bandholz Poolesville Girls Discus
Wheaton Girls 4x100
Springbrook Boys 4x100
GIRLS New Top 25 Performances in Meet History, Sorted by Event
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New Rank Name School Result Event
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#12 Iyanni Daley Wheaton 12.03 100m
#21 Brooke Cochran James H. Blake 12.12 100m
#5 Brooke Cochran James H. Blake 24.52 200m
#10 Iyanni Daley Wheaton 24.62 200m
#9 Kayla Gordon Gaithersburg 56.43 400m
#23 Jaayah Jenkins James H. Blake 57.57 400m
#11 Grace Finnegan Richard Montgomery 2:16.89 800m
#20 Jaayah Jenkins James H. Blake 2:17.51 800m
#23 Emilie Creighton James H. Blake 2:17.73 800m
#25 Megan Raue Walter Johnson 2:17.81 800m
#8 Katherine Morey Winston Churchill 5:00.74 1600m
#13 Grace Finnegan Richard Montgomery 5:02.11 1600m
#17 Ani Bailin Bethesda Chevy Chase 5:03.10 1600m
#18 Katherine Greenwald Walt Whitman 5:04.03 1600m
#20 Hallie Muniz Winston Churchill 5:04.43 1600m
#23 Victoria Ketzler Thomas S. Wootton 5:05.73 1600m
#25 Mackenzie Raue Walter Johnson 5:05.80 1600m
#4 Ella Werkman Walt Whitman 10:48.80 3200m
#5 Ani Bailin Bethesda Chevy Chase 10:52.35 3200m
#18 Katherine Greenwald Walt Whitman 11:09.84 3200m
#8 Hannah Komukyeya Wheaton 45.26 300m IH
#2 Wheaton 47.55 4x100
#3 Gaithersburg 47.78 4x100
#2 Gaithersburg 1:40.02 4x200
#3 Wheaton 1:40.51 4x200
#7 James H. Blake 1:41.73 4x200
#20 Paint Branch 4:01.76 4x400
#21 Springbrook 4:02.01 4x400
#3 Walter Johnson 9:20.62 4x800
#10 Thomas S. Wootton 9:26.86 4x800
#21 Bethesda Chevy Chase 9:33.34 4x800
#5 Sierra Swangin James H. Blake 5-07.00 High Jump
#10 Aliyah Rahman Northwest 18-00.00 Long Jump
#14 Jaylin Harried Bethesda Chevy Chase 37-05.50 Triple Jump
#15 Mireya King Montgomery Blair 37-02.50 Triple Jump
#25 Emma Giselle Forbin Clarksburg 36-07.25 Triple Jump
#19 Jabea Ewane Watkins Mill 37-02.75 Shot Put
#5 Teagan Bandholz Poolesville 122-07.00 Discus
#3 Ava Wilson Bethesda Chevy Chase 10-00.00 Pole Vault
BOYS New Top 25 Performances in Meet History, Sorted by Event
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New Rank Name School Result Event
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#1 Roman Spikes Paint Branch 10.53 100m
#2 Quentin Braithwaite Montgomery Blair 10.60 100m
#3 Roman Spikes Paint Branch 10.68 (sf) 100m
#7 Tarique Wright Springbrook 10.78 100m
#11 Quentin Braithwaite Montgomery Blair 10.81 (sf) 100m
#18 Tarique Wright Springbrook 10.85 (sf) 100m
#1 Nicholas Spikes Paint Branch 20.92 200m
#2 Roman Spikes Paint Branch 21.03 200m
#3 Roman Spikes Paint Branch 21.35 (sf) 200m
#3 Nicholas Spikes Paint Branch 21.35 (sf) 200m
#6 Quentin Braithwaite Montgomery Blair 21.59 200m
#21 Damilola Oyeniran Seneca Valley 21.96 200m
#1 Nicholas Spikes Paint Branch 47.10 400m
#13 Jacob Martin Paint Branch 48.92 400m
#15 Damilola Oyeniran Seneca Valley 48.97 400m
#22 Osman Fanny Gaithersburg 49.43 400m
#13 Mateo Gros-Slovinsky Walt Whitman 1:56.37 800m
#16 Jacob Martin Paint Branch 1:56.56 800m
#18 Mateo Gros-Slovinsky Walt Whitman 4:19.84 1600m
#5 Benick Akeh James H. Blake 39.23 300m IH
#22 Josiah Teasley Quince Orchard 39.66 300m IH
#17 Springbrook 43.19 4x100
#25 Gaithersburg 43.49 4x100
#1 Paint Branch 1:25.13 4x200
#7 Springbrook 1:29.06 4x200
#12 Seneca Valley 1:29.45 4x200
#13 Gaithersburg 1:29.52 4x200
#24 Montgomery Blair 1:30.28 4x200
#5 Paint Branch 3:22.79 4x400
#7 Springbrook 3:23.14 4x400
#9 Seneca Valley 3:23.48 4x400
#8 Northwest 7:58.60 4x800
#16 Montgomery Blair 8:01.48 4x800
#20 Walter Johnson 8:02.10 4x800
#13 Yassine Idrissa Thomas S. Wootton 6-04.00 High Jump
#1 Kendall Wideman Seneca Valley 22-11.50 Long Jump
#19 Paul Rivers Northwest 145-03.00 Discus
#4 Jackson Larson Winston Churchill 13-00.00 Pole Vault
#16 Carson Dohn Gaithersburg 12-00.00 Pole Vault
Boys and girls classifications each had 39 new top 25 performances in county championship meet history.
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